Nor was the forest thick and tangled, but rather like an open park, so that among the trees were great stretches of ground wanting only to be tilled.

Twenty of Cartier's men were set to turn the soil, and in one day had prepared and sown about an acre and a half of ground.

The cabbage, lettuce, and turnip seed that they planted showed green shoots within a week.
At the mouth of the Cap Rouge river there is a high point, now called Redclyffe.

On this Cartier constructed a second fort, which commanded the fortification and the ships below.

A little spring supplied fresh water, and the natural situation afforded a protection against attack by water or by land.